The Word of God and Parenting

Now that I’m older, I’ve got enough of a history to know that life is a journey that can be pretty intimidating and confusing. Having kids brings that reality home. As one parent once half-seriously said to me, “There are the parenting years that go real well. And then, there are the years of parenting teens.” To be honest, it’s the gift of difficulty and confusion that we need to redirect our eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to where they should be aimed. In a world where it’s easy to look for guidance and direction in all the wrong places, we’re prone to follow a host of “guiding lights” that wind up leading us in the wrong direction. In a world where there are many “experts” sharing conflicting opinions on how to parent our kids through the teenage years, it’s good to know there’s a light we can trust. And the One who created life, children, teens, parents, and families offers that light to us. That light is the Word – both the incarnate Word Jesus Christ and the written Word of the Bible.